Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
The Smoke from the Flames il United
Would Darken the World.

BROOKLYN, Feb, 6.-Thc subject of
the sermon was pillars Of SMOKE"
and the ext was taken from Solomon's
Song, Oh. III, vi.
''Who Is this that comcth out Of the wilder
ness like pillars Of smoker"
DR.. Talmage said:
The architecture of the smoke is
wondrous, whether sGod with his finger
curls il into a clond, or rounds il into
q dome, or points it into u spire, or
spreads it in a wing, or, as in the text,
HOSTS it in a pillar. Watch it winding
up from the country farm house IN the
early morning, showing that the pas
toral industries have begun; OF see 1t
ascending from the chimneys of the city,
telling Of the homes fed, the factories
turning out valuable farbrics, the print
ing presses preparing book and news
paper, and all the ten thousand wheels
Oh WOth III ttttttbhs VII - tttdt o'N
this yapor spoken OF mounts with such
b~uoyance, and spreads such a delicate
veil across the sky, and traces such
graceful lines Of circle and semi-circle,
and waves. and losses, and sinks and
scars. and s|catters with such afluence
Of shape, and color, and suggestive
ness, that if YOU have never noticed it
you are like n man who has all his life
lived in Paris and yet never seen the
Luxembourg, and all his life in Rome
and never seen the Vatican, and all his
life in Lockport and never seen Mag
ara. Forty-four times the Bible speaks
of the smoke, and it is abont time
somebody breaches a sermon recogniz-
ing this strange, weird, beautiful, elias
tic, charming, terrific and fascinating
vapor. Across the Bible sky floats the
smoke Of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom,
the smoke Of All, the smoke of the PIT,
the smoke Of volcanic hills when God
touches them, and in my text the
glorious Church of God coming up out
of the wilderness like pillars of smoke.
In the first place, these pillars OF
smoke in my text indicate the suffering
the Church of God has endured. Wha,
do / mean by the church, | mean no,
q building, not n sect, but those who in
all ages and all lands, and of all be-
hefs, love God and are trying to do
right. For many centuries the heavens
have been black with the smoke Of
martyrdem. If set side by side you
could girdle the earth with the fires OF
persecution. Rowland Taylor burned
at Ikdleigh; Latimer burned at Ok
ford; John Rogers burned at Smith.
field; John Hooper burned ut Glouces.
ter; John Huss burned at Constance.
Lawrence Saunders, burned at Coy,
entry; Joan of Arc burned ut Rouen
Protestants have sometimes pointed tC
the Catholics as prosecutors, but both
Protestant and Catholic have prac.
ticed infamous cruelties. The Catho,
lies during the reign of Hunneric, were
by Protestants put to the worst tor
lures, stripped of their clothing, hoistet
in the air by pulleys with weights sus,
pended from their feet, then let down,
and ears ant eyes, nose and tongue
amputated. and red-hot plates OF iron
were put against the tonderest part u
their bodies. George Bancroft, the
historian, says of the state of Mary,
land: I'm the land which Catholics
had opened to Protestants, mass might
not be said publicly; no Catholic priest
OF bishop might utter his faith in a
voice of persuasion; no Catholic might
teach the young. If "A maynard child
of a Papist would but become an apos-
tate. the law wrested for him from his
parents n share of their property.
Such were the methods adopted to pre-.
vent the growth of Popery," Speak
ing of Ireland, Bancroft, the historian,
says: such priests as were permit
TED to reside in Ireland were required
20 pc registered. aud we've kept kt
prisoners ut large within prescribed
limits. All Papists exercising %ecclcsi
astical jurisdiction, all monks. friars
and regular priests, and all priests no
then actually in parishes and TO b.
registered, were banished from ireland
under pain of transportation ard, OF
return. of being hanged, drawn anC
quartered."
Catholicism as well as Professionalism
has had its martyrs. 1t does seem rs
if when any u sect got complete
dominancy in any land, the deyll o.
persecution and cruelty took posses.
sion Of that sect. Then see the Catho-
lies after the Augonots. See the Gen.
tiles after the jews in Touraine, where
a great pit was dug and fire lighted a
the bottom Of the pit, and 100 jewish
victims were consumed. See the Pres
byterlan parliament of England, more